Clothes-line conveyer



- A. G. LTENI.

CLOTHES ODNVEYER.

(No Model.)

' No. 557,999. Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

INVENTOI? A TTOHNEYS.

ATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER G. MOLTENI, OF HOBOKEN, NEIV JERSEY.

CLOTH ES-LINE CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,996, dated April 7, 1896.

Application filed August 10, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that LALEXANDER G. MOLTENI, of I'Ioboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Conveyors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices adapted to be secured to the outer side of a window or door casing or to a wall adjacent thereto, so as to be in convenient reach of aperson within a room, and over which a clothes-line is designed to pass, the other end of the line being extended around a pulley attached to a distant post or other support.

The object of my invention is to provide a clothes-line conveyer of very simple yet strong construction, that may be made and sold at a very low price as compared with other devices made for this purpose.

I will describe a clothes-line conveyor embodying my invention, and then point out the novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a clothes-line conveyer embodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof.

In the drawings, A indicates a sheave having a grooved periphery adapted to receive the pulley-line in the ordinary way, said sheave being secured 011 a shaft A, mounted to turn in bearings formed in the outer end portions of arms a, formed integrally with and extending from the opposite sides of a headblock A of general rectangular form and provided with an aperture extending through it from top to bottom. The arms Ct are spaced apart sufiiciently to receive between them the sheave A.

One end of the shaft A of the sheave A is provided with an enlarged and squared head a, on which is adapted to fit a crank-arm A having a handle, as shown in the drawings, and provided with asquared socket to receive said squared head a, whereby the shaft may be turned, and the opposite end of said shaft A is reduced and provided with a pin passed through it, as clearly seen in Fig. 2. In this way it will be seen that the bearings of the Serial No. 558,893. (No model.)

it is desired to remove the shaft this is acco1nplished by simply removing the pin.

The arms a are provided with extensions (1 extending in opposite directions from. their upper and lower faces, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and said extensions are of such length as to project somewhat beyond the periphery of the sheave A at the upper and lower sides of the same, so that the pulley-line held on said sheave will be prevented from being displaced laterally from the groove in the sheave. The extensions a have their end portions, which project beyond the periphery of the sheave A, arranged opposite each other, but entirely disconnected, so that the pulley-line may be readily passed around the sheave, it being only necessary to insert it through theaperture between the rear face of the sheave and the front face of the head-block A The aperture formed in the head-block A I is of a round form in cross-section and is adapted to receive a rounded pintle B, extendin g at right angles from the plain end portion of a screw B, adapted to be screwed into a window-sill or the like to afford a secure fas toning for the sheave, and when in position on the pintle the under side of the head-block A will bear against the plain portion of the screw B, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. arrangement of the pintle B, projecting at right angles from the screw 13, it will be seen that the head-block may be held upon the pintle 13 while the same extends either in an upright or horizontal position, and where it is desired to secure the head-block t0 the under side of a window-sill or the like the screw B may be itself passed through the aperture in thehead-block, the under side of the latter then resting and swinging on the pintle B.

From the above description of my invention it will be seen that the device is of an extremely simple and inexpensive construction and is well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended, since by its use the sheave carrying the pulley-line may be se- By this cured to the side of a building or the like in almost any position without rendering necessary any change of the parts except such as are capable of being made in the arrangement of the screw and pintle with respect to the head-block.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of a screw having a plain portion, provided with a rounded pintle extending at right angles from one of its sides, a head-block having flattened upper and lower surfaces and provided with a perforation extending through it from its upper to its lower face, said perforation being adapted for the passage of either the screw or the pintle on the screw, arms projecting forwardly from opposite sides of the head-block, and

having bearings at their forward ends, a shaft arranged to turn in the bearings in the arms and having one end provided with a squared enlargement, a sheave held on said shaft be tween the arms, a pin passed through the end of the shaft opposite to said enlargement and serving to hold the shaft in place, a crank-arm having a square socket to receive the squared enlargement of the shaft, and extensions projecting upward and downward from the arms, said extensions being arranged opposite each other and having their extremities arranged to project beyond the periphery of the sheave at the upper and lower sides of the same, substantially as set forth.

ALEXANDER G. MOLTEN I. Witnesses:

JosEPH BoLAND, JAMEs ll. MILLER. 

